Divān

Hafez

Perseus:bib:oclc, 559481156. The Dīvān .Translated for the first time out of the Persian into English prose, with critical and explanatory remarks, with an introductory preface, with a note on Ṣūfīism, and with a life of the author, by H. Wilberforce Clarke. Calcutta, India. 1891.

  1. The wise bird (the lover, sincere in love's claim) goeth not, song-singing, in its sward (of beauty), ### Every spring (beloved) in whose rear, an autumn (of effacement) hath. ***